This talk lays out the basic intersections of property rights - copyrights, patents, and contracts - with scientific research. The talk also examines how approaches inspired by the Free Software movement might help create a "research commons" of freely usable tools, papers and data. Specific case studies in biological materials transfer and text mining of gene interaction networks are presented for discussion.


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Producer: John Wilbanks
Sponsor: OpenWetWare
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: John Wilbanks; OpenWetWare; Seminar Series on Open Science; Science Commons
Contact Information: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series

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